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Turning waste into building blocks of the future city

What if the rubbish was refabricated to become real urban spaces or buildings? If it is plausible to adapt current machinery, how much material is available? At first sight, any sanitary landfill may be viewed as an ample supply of building materials. Heavy industrial technologies crush cars or to automatically sort out garbage are readily available. 3-D printing has exhausting capabilities if adjusted to larger scales.
— bbc.com

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I thought crushed cars entered back into the system by melting them down and reusing the metal. Anyhow it makes a lot more sense than mining a bunch or rock, crushing it and smelting the iron out of it. I'm not sure if building wall panels with crushed car parts is really doing us a lot of good if we have to continue to rape the landscape for iron ore.